Tsunami Relief - "Fleurons of Hope"
Category: Design... Society & Culture...
Posted Monday, March 28, 2005 at 07:34 PM [GMT-6]

Here's a deal that's hard to pass up. Buy a cool font for not-much-money, and all proceeds go to Direct Relief International to assist in Southeast Asia Tsunami relief efforts.

For $20, you can purchase "Fleurons of Hope" from MyFonts.com. This font is comprised of more than 400 glyphs and is available as OpenType or TrueType (works with Macs and Windows PCs). The font is classified as an ornamental or picture font...a dingbat on pheromones, if you will.

The font was designed as a project of FontAid III, a group of designers and foundries from around the world which, under the coordination of The Society of Typographic Afficionados (SOTA), has chosen this means to raise money for tsunami relief. A list of the more than 200 designers who contributed to the creation of this font is found here.

If you love fonts -- and who doesn't? -- this is a great way to expand your collection and provide a bit more assistance to a worthy cause.

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